Psalms 42:10

Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:

Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth. I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad.

Then he said to Gehazi, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand, and go your way. If you meet any man, don’t greet him; and if anyone greets you, don’t answer him again. Then lay my staff on the child’s face.”

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh’s house; and I saw at the door of Yahweh’s temple, between the porch and the altar, there were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward Yahweh’s temple, and their faces toward the east. They were worshiping the sun toward the east.

“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!

Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.

You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.

“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, to mourning, to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth;

I looked, and there was no one to help; and I wondered that there was no one to uphold. Therefore my own arm brought salvation to me. My own wrath upheld me.

The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh’s house. The priests, Yahweh’s ministers, mourn.

About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?” That is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.”

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

Elijah took his mantle, and rolled it up, and struck the waters, and they were divided here and there, so that they both went over on dry ground.

Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘The great king, the king of Assyria, says, “What confidence is this in which you trust?

Many there are who say of my soul, “There is no help for him in God.”

I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.

Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out.

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God, now?”

Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

Take away my disgrace that I dread, for your ordinances are good.

Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.

They shall be as mighty men, treading down muddy streets in the battle; and they shall fight, because Yahweh is with them; and the riders on horses will be confounded.

Now the centurion, and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, saying, “Truly this was the Son of God.”

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.

Why should the Egyptians talk, saying, ‘He brought them out for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?’ Turn from your fierce wrath, and turn away from this evil against your people.

If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us: a land which flows with milk and honey.

When he came, behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching, for his heart trembled for God’s ark. When the man came into the city and told about it, all the city cried out.

Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days.

When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself as wife.

He also brought me out into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

He took Elijah’s mantle that fell from him, and struck the waters, and said, “Where is Yahweh, the God of Elijah?” When he also had struck the waters, they were divided apart, and Elisha went over.

You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.

Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

he will make your righteousness shine out like light, and your justice as the noon day sun.

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”

Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.

Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes.

The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth.

Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.

“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.

Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’ ”

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”

They all left him, and fled.

At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is, being interpreted, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.

Let’s therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.

But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

When he made mention of God’s ark, Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died, for he was an old man and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.

Doesn’t Hezekiah persuade you, to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, ‘Yahweh our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?’

“How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?

“He trusts in Yahweh. Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.

saying, “God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him.”

So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I trust in your word.

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown,

Rabshakeh said to them, “Now tell Hezekiah, ‘The great king, the king of Assyria, says, “What confidence is this in which you trust?

Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her who said to me, where is Yahweh your God? Then my enemy will see me and will cover her shame. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.

He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ”

Yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul, that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”